It must be the hormones, but I'm completely devastated and in tears because my partner's family don't like the name we picked out for our baby boy.
My own family took a moment to think about it before deciding that they liked it - it's an unusual choice after all, but the reaction from the in laws has upset me so much.
We wanted to call our little boy Gryffin. I understand it's unusual, but it's not horrific, is it? It's Welsh in origin, and I just love the connotations it has with magic and knights and mythology. I always think of it as a laid-back, surfer sort of name.
We picked it out when I was only a month or so along, but then tried to take a few months to think of other names just to be sure we definitely liked it. Nothing else really seemed right. Now I'm twenty two weeks and have already started calling the bump Gryffin, and it just fits so well, but we started telling family to somepositive, but mostly luke-warm reception. Everyone was supportive however, and agreed it was nice but unusual. But when we told my partner's grandmother, she changed the subject, and we told a favorite Aunty and her expression was shock and horror.
Anyway, now I'm just depressed and upset. Is Gryffin really so horrific? There are children with awfully strange names these days, I recently heard of a Storm, a Phoenix, a Leaf, a Branch (not kidding!) and even a Banjo just in our local community. I can't imagine a boy getting bullied for being called Gryffin, it seems like a cool name? Am I wrong?
Do you think it's just that it wasn't to their taste? Or am I being cruel to cinsider calling my child this? I understand not particularly liking a name, but surely it isn't a completely awful name?